About the Author

T. H. Watkins (1936–2000) was the first Wallace Stegner Dis-tinguished Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University. Watkins wrote twenty-eight books on history, the environment, and nature, including Righteous Pilgrim: The Life of Harold Ickes, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Award.

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“No one has written more or better about the West, past and present, than Wallace Stegner.”—USA Today

"No one has written more or better about the West, past and present, than Wallace Stegner."-USA Today